Linux Debian support - Re: Keeping clock in sync

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Re: Keeping clock in sync

Madhusudan Singh

2004-10-26, 5:45 pm

Tony Houghton wrote:

> I know this subject has come up recently, but I didn't see anything
> really useful in the other thread.
>
> I've been using ntpdate with Debian, which gives satisfactory results,
> but I'd rather have something that runs in the background at intervals
> instead of holding up my boot sequence. OK, I could gut the ntpdate
> package and run it from cron/anacron, but I'd rather use a ready-made
> solution.

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I have found a combination of cron (every 6 hours) + rdate -s <your
favourite time server> to be quite satisfactory.